Question Hard Disk Dynamic Invalid (Multiple Volume)

[henrycrisna]

Hi. Does anybody know how to fix this issue?
I have a hard disk from my old laptop that I've turned into an external hard disk. However, when it's connected to my new PC, it shows 'Dynamic Invalid' in Disk Management. The hard disk has multiple volumes (D, E, F). I need this hard disk to work and to recover the data as well.

 

[helpstar]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yd7lR_iWKY

 

[henrycrisna]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yd7lR_iWKY

I'm using AOMEI and show like this. I need all the volume data.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I have a hard disk from my old laptop that I've turned into an external hard disk. However, when it's connected to my new PC, it shows 'Dynamic Invalid' in Disk Management. The hard disk has multiple volumes (D, E, F). I need this hard disk to work and to recover the data as well.

1. Take the disk out of external enclosure and connect back to old laptop.
2. Copy data to another drive.
3. After you have safely recovered all data from the drive, clean it, convert to basic, repartition and reformat it.
4. Only then you can make external drive out of it.

 

[henrycrisna]

1. Take the disk out of external enclosure and connect back to old laptop.
2. Copy data to another drive.
3. After you have safely recovered all data from the drive, clean it, convert to basic, repartition and reformat it.
4. Only then you can make external drive out of it.

But my old laptop has been sold. :') Any other recommendation?

 

[SkyNetRising]

Then I guess, you're out of luck.
This is why you should never use dynamic disks, if you want to move drives between different computers.

 

[USAFRet]

But my old laptop has been sold. :') Any other recommendation?

And this is why we never have only one copy of any data we wish to keep.

 

[helpstar]

did you try diskpart which was shown at the beginning of the video?

 

[fzabkar]

You should be able to recover your data with DMDE, possibly even with the free version.

https://dmde.com/

Can you show us DMDE's Partitions tab?

 

[henrycrisna]

did you try diskpart which was shown at the beginning of the video?

already did, but there's something different in mine.

 

[henrycrisna]

You should be able to recover your data with DMDE, possibly even with the free version.

https://dmde.com/

Can you show us DMDE's Partitions tab?

It is shown like this. what should I do next?

 

[SkyNetRising]

It is shown like this. what should I do next?

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[fzabkar]

D-click each of your "Documents!" volumes and expand the $Root. Do you see your file/folder tree?

The 1.00 TB Documents! volume has been damaged. The underlined "F" indicates that there are problems with the file system, so data recovery may be difficult.

Your drive is an SMR model which supports TRIM. That could be an added complication, but it would depend on what you did and whether your USB enclosure supports SCSI UNMAP (equivalent to TRIM).

 

[fzabkar]

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I can see it:

https://i.ibb.co/M8qZKDg/Screenshot-2024-04-27-230752.png

 

[henrycrisna]

D-click each of your "Documents!" volumes and expand the $Root. Do you see your file/folder tree?

The 1.00 TB Documents! volume has been damaged. The underlined "F" indicates that there are problems with the file system, so data recovery may be difficult.

Your drive is an SMR model which supports TRIM. That could be an added complication, but it would depend on what you did and whether your USB enclosure supports SCSI UNMAP (equivalent to TRIM).

Oh, thank God. After performing a full scan, the folder tree is displayed. I think I just need to restore it? Then format my hard disk?

 

[fzabkar]

You need to r-click and Recover the files to another drive, The free version is limited to 4000 files of any size from any one folder per click.

 

[henrycrisna]

You need to r-click and Recover the files to another drive, The free version is limited to 4000 files of any size from any one folder per click.

Well noted.
What should I do with my hard disk after the Recovery?

 

[SkyNetRising]

What should I do with my hard disk after the Recovery?

Clean it and repartition it to basic. So it is not dynamic any more.

 

[henrycrisna]

Clean it and repartition it to basic. So it is not dynamic any more.

Thank you so much for your help! Truly a life saver~